From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Twitter: 200 million tweets a day [Infographic]

June 30, 2011

Twitter released some new stats: 1 billion tweets are sent every five days. Here is a more readable version of the infographic showing how many tweets per day that is:

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How bad Twitter links & apps can trick you

June 30, 2011

For more about tricks spammers and hackers use, read “How spammers attack Twitter.” 1. You can do nothing wrong, and still get hacked or hijacked! Here’s why, and what you can do about it: You could think you are logging into Twitter.com, but not notice it is a lookalike phishing site. How to prevent this: Don’t [...]

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My long, long conversation with a Twitter critic

June 27, 2011

You’ll need to read on to find out who “Alan” is, and why I am making a challenge to him, but first: the challenge… My challenge to “Alan” If he’ll explain clearly how he thinks I’m supposed to be using Twitter and for what reason, once we get his rules and reasons clarified I’ll make [...]

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How users break Twitter’s following rules and get away with it

June 26, 2011

I’m going to show you how to identify users who may be breaking Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS), but also show you why it’s hard to know for sure—and how newer, more sophisticated follow-unfollow software makes it impossible to tell. What I’m going to be covering are uses of Twitter that will get your account [...]

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How many people should you follow on Twitter?

June 25, 2011

This is only for people that engage others! That means responding and conversing on Twitter. (People who don’t engage on Twitter need to learn how to use it better.) So if you engage others on Twitter, how many people you follow depends on how you use following as a tool. There are a wide variety [...]

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Advanced techniques to grow your Twitter account

June 23, 2011

Note that are a ton of free tools you can use to find influential Twitter users (vs. some of the paid services shown in the slides). A tweet from @javiergodoy led me to @jasoncormier‘s article at searchenginewatch.com which included this slide presentation by Brandon Whalen and team for capturetheconversation.com which is embedded below from Slideshare. Best [...]

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Religion—according to Twitter bios

June 22, 2011

Possibly the real story here, as Dave Cole points out in the comments, is that very few people list their religion in their Twitter bio. Dave suggests “The graph really needs to show % of people who list a religion vs. not.” Source @lakey (Chris Lake), using data from http://followerwonk.com/ which checks only what people list in their [...]

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How can you build a large following fast on Twitter? The ULTIMATE guide, part 2

June 19, 2011

Tip: You’ll need to have part 1 handy to get the most out of this post, and you might want to follow these tips for getting the most out of these ideas. I get asked this a lot, both from folks who are not popular outside of Twitter and even from celebrities. The most common variation is [...]

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When Old Twitter went away

June 18, 2011

  Update: On August 2, 2011, Twitter announced the end of Old Twitter: UPDATE: On June 23—Twitter added this warning: Will turning off the old Twitter.com interface cut down on spammers? Interestingly, some third party services use browsers to access Twitter, instead of through the API. Why? Because they’re doing things Twitter doesn’t want users [...]

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TweetDeck for the Desktop: The Ultimate Manual

June 17, 2011

I created a 60-page manual for using TweetDeck on the desktop that I have only shared privately before. Scroll down to see the Table of Contents (click “Fullscreen” underneath to view larger). I’ve decided to make it public in a variety of formats: View it embedded on screen below (click the fullscreen icon at bottom [...]

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